Tickets for PA Lottery’s 12th Millionaire Raffle On Sale May 13 - Game Offers Four Top Prizes of $1 Million, More Than $5 Million in Total Prizes
Middletown – May 12, 2011 - Tickets for the Pennsylvania Lottery’s 12th Millionaire Raffle, which offers 6,000 cash prizes totaling more than $5 million, go on sale Friday, May 13.
“The drawing for the next Millionaire Raffle will be Saturday, July 9,” said Drew Svitko, Lottery interim executive director. “Because tickets sold out early for our last Raffle, we encourage players to buy their tickets as soon as possible.”
Each of the game’s $20 tickets offers a 1-in-125,000 chance of winning $1 million, the best odds ever offered by the Lottery for a $1 million prize. The overall odds of winning any prize are 1-in-83.33.
Tickets will be available until 5 p.m. on July 9, or until sold out. Only 500,000 tickets will be sold, after which the game will close. Players should sign the backs of tickets promptly and keep them in a safe place until the July 9 drawing.
Each raffle ticket will feature a unique, eight-digit number issued sequentially as tickets are sold across the state. The first ticket sold on May 13 will feature number 00000001, and the final raffle ticket for the game will feature number 00500000.
To be considered a winning ticket, the number on a Millionaire Raffle ticket must exactly match a winning number selected in the raffle drawing, and all digits must appear in the same sequence as the winning number.
Winning Millionaire Raffle ticket numbers will be randomly selected at 6:59 p.m. on July 9 when the Lottery’s live drawing show will televise the selection of four $1 million, top-prize raffle ticket numbers and four $100,000, second-prize raffle ticket numbers. The remaining 100 winning ticket numbers for prizes of $1,000 each and 5,892 winning ticket numbers for prizes of $100 each also will be selected, but will not be televised live due to time constraints. In total, 6,000 prizes worth $5,089,200 will be awarded.
About the Pennsylvania Lottery: The Pennsylvania Lottery remains the only state lottery that designates all its proceeds to programs that benefit older residents. Since its inception 38 years ago, the Pennsylvania Lottery has contributed nearly $20.6 billion to programs that include property tax and rent rebates; free transit and reduced-fare shared rides; the low-cost prescription drug programs PACE and PACENET; long-term living services; and the 52 Area Agencies on Aging, including full- and part-time senior centers throughout the state. The Pennsylvania Lottery reminds its players to play responsibly. Players must be 18 or older.
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